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🚨 I’M DONE ASKING SONY NICELY. BOYCOTT PLAYSTATION. For decades I’ve bought movies on physical discs. I paid for the movie, took the disc home, put it on my shelf and watched it when I wanted. Nobody needed to explain to me that I had purchased something. Now Sony wants to play word games with “buy.” You click BUY. You click CONFIRM PURCHASE. Money leaves your account. But according to Sony’s own terms, you didn’t actually buy the game. You bought a license. And now Sony is arguing in federal court that “reasonable consumers” understand the difference. Really? " Reasonable Customers?" Explain that to an 11-year-old who saved his birthday money, opened the PlayStation Store, saw the word BUY and thought he was buying a game. That kid isn’t thinking about licensing agreements, revocable access or corporate attorneys parsing the definition of ownership. He thinks BUY means BUY. It DOES NOT SAY " RENT!" You greedy fu#ks! And that's exactly my problem with Sony. They want to sell the console, control the storefront, and control the digital distribution. They want the subscription revenue. They want you to pay! They want to be the tree, the fruit AND the roots. Then there’s the separate PlayStation antitrust settlement in California: $7.85 million covering roughly 4.4 million eligible PSN accounts. And if your PSN account is active, how are they proposing to compensate you? PLAYSTATION WALLET CREDIT. Think about that. Let that sink in! The settlement is supposed to compensate consumers over allegations involving Sony’s digital marketplace, yet for active customers the compensation goes right back into Sony’s digital marketplace. You don’t have to hate PlayStation to see why that leaves a bad taste in my mouth. I’ve made my decision. I left PlayStation, and Sony will not receive another cent from me unless its business practices change. And I think gamers who feel the same way should stop complaining for a weekend and do something Sony actually understands: STOP SPENDING MONEY. NOT ANOTHER DIME! No PlayStation Plus renewal. No PS Store purchases. No new console. No accessories. No preorders. Boycott PlayStation indefinitely until Sony gives its customers a meaningful answer on ownership, physical media, digital licenses and the future of the games we paid for. And before somebody tells me GTA VI will save everything-GTA will sell an unbelievable number of copies. Of course it will. But GTA is a game, not a business model. "The honeymoon ends." Then gamers are still left with the same questions about what they own, what Sony controls and what happens to their libraries in the increasingly digital PlayStation ecosystem. Meanwhile Microsoft and Xbox are at least extending an olive branch toward physical owners with Disc-to-Digital. Sony could do the same. But they suffer from terminal greed! They simply have to decide that keeping the trust of their customers matters as much as the money they can squeeze from them. Until then? My wallet is closed. Sony says, " reasonable consumers" understand what they're buying. Fine. This reasonable consumer understands exactly where his money is going. "Somewhere else fu#kers!" @PlayStation @Sony @Xbox @Microsoft @Steam @valvesoftware @KackisHD @Aztecross @ReforgeGaming @TCMFGamesOfficial @The_CrapGamer @OhNoItsAlexx @xOmniarch @WhosImmortal @SpawnWaveMedia @ABC @CBSNews @NBCNews @FoxNews #PlayStation #Sony #PS5 #PS6 #BoycottPlayStation #GameOwnership #DigitalOwnership #PhysicalMedia #NoDiscNoBuy #Gaming #GamingNews #ConsumerRights 🎯If you like this content, follow. I do my best to stay on top of the latest gaming & tech information. Game On!